Hi all, you may have noticed me rummaging around lately. I’ve been pretty much absent for a handful of years, but I got an itch recently to get back involved. Thanks go to Daniel for picking up the slack while I and others were dormant and moving us into modern times with Github!

My goal with this release was to get RabbitVCS running fairly well on modern systems, to merge in the many generously contributed (and long ignored) pull requests that have accumulated the past few years, and to fix as many bugs as I could find and reproduce. I went through most of the issues backlog to pick off what I could with limited time, and I feel like I reached a pretty good checkpoint to create a tag. There are a few minor enhancements in the mix, but this contains mostly fixes for bugs and crashes. You can grab the v0.17 files here.

Regarding packages, Jason has stepped down as our resident packager for Ubuntu. He’s done a great job over the years and I’m not really sure what’s going to happen with that. If someone wants to step up I’m glad to help them however I can. There are also packages in Fedora that we’ll want to update, though I don’t have a hand in that. In the meantime, I would advise you to just install manually using the updated README as your guide. The only changes in terms of dependencies listed is tkinter for python, which was unfortunately added for some one-off (though useful) git client changes. I’d like to eventually replace these with gtk+ dialogs.

As for the future, here is a short list of some goals I have:

One pull request I merged introduced some modifications that should help with an eventual shift to python3, which I’d like to complete at some point.

Move us entirely onto Gtk+3 and gobject introspection, as we’re currently stuck with pygtk2 for our dialog windows.

Improve the performance and memory usage of the Nautilus extension, which should help with larger repositories. In addition, I found a bug in Nautilus that is preventing our context menus from working fully correctly and I’m hoping to get that resolved soon for a future Nautilus release.

Regarding the wiki and website, they are quite out-dated and I’d like to move the wiki to Github and consolidate a bit.

Hopefully get the Gedit plugin working again. It broke when they switched to python3. I spent a little time on it but it seems like there were underlying changes to the Gedit plugin API and I don’t have the time right now to dive in.

So there is lots to do just to stay above water level here, and I can’t promise what will get done. New features will probably be on hold until some of these more important things happen, so feel free to jump in.

hi all, thanks go to rkrug, basil2, and macavity for helping me figure
out what why we were seeing seg faults in nautilus. The problem seems
to affect people with python-gtkspell installed. That is a static
module that uses static gtk as a dependency, and when it tried to
import gtk it would create a seg fault. Unfortunately, there doesn’t
seem to be dynamic bindings for gtk spell module so I’ve disabled it
for Nautilus 3 users. This update should also fix the issue where it
would report that it couldn’t load certain svg or svgz files.

The new tarball (hopefully the last for a while) is up now on our
download section.

hi all, so I’ve made yet another packaging related release with v0.15.0.4 which fixes some minor issues. I also found out that if you are installing from the tarball on Ubuntu, then you need to add an argument to the setup.py call, otherwise it will ignore the system prefix and use /usr/local no matter what, which will cause many problems.

This release is mainly focused on adding Nautilus 3.0 support with the
new nautilus-3.0 client extension. However, there are quite a few bug
fixes and changes in there as well, including migrating from Glade to
GtkBuilder for dialogs.

It looks like something strange happened with the v0.14.1 release tarball because it did not include the actual bug fixes, it was an exact copy of v0.14. So none of the bugs I fixed were actually fixed in that release. With that said, here is the “real” v0.14.1, but I’m calling it v0.14.1.1 so we know the difference. I included a couple more bug fixes in this release, as well.

(Bug #456) Fix nautilus crasher when dialogs are acted on

(Bug #461) Fix a crasher in the merge dialog

(Bug #457) In the changes dialog, fix bug that stopped diffs from being generated

Also fixed an issue where opening versioned files from the changes dialog would not work sometimes.

A few serious bugs were discovered shortly after the v0.14 release, including one very serious one that crashed nautilus when any kind of dialog was displayed or program was executed. So here is a small bugfix release that fixes these issues.

(Bug #456) Fix nautilus crasher when dialogs are acted on

(Bug #461) Fix a crasher in the merge dialog

(Bug #457) In the changes dialog, fix bug that stopped diffs from being generated

Also fixed an issue where opening versioned files from the changes dialog would not work sometimes.

After almost a year of development (with some breaks), v0.14 is finally here. This release brings about a ton of new functionality and bug fixes, most notably the addition of git support, which makes this our first release that is truly multi-vcs, a quicker status checker for the nautilus file manager extension, and an improved mechanism for resolving and editing conflicts.